Re: [Cz-L] Rescue Operation of Czernowitz Jews - A Joint Venture

Below is a rerun of my previous message regarding the "Popovici Permit" bribes.

As long as I can remember, my grandmother always talked about her heavy gold chain which she wore on Shabes.
She swapped the gold chain for a Popovici permit. She gave it to an official or a police officer. This official arranged that she did not have to move to the ghetto, wear the yellow star and also kept her store in the Kuczurmarerstrasse.
But every time when she met a Czernowitzer she told the story and cursed that official who took her heavy gold chain. Nor a cholere sol im trefen. (I hope he caches cholera)she cursed.

Arthur

--- On Mon, 12/26/11, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Rescue Operation of Czernowitz Jews - A Joint Venture
To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Cc: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, "'Edgar Hauster'" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>, "'Berti Glaubach'" <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>, "'Czernowitz Discussion Group'" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>, "'Jerome Schatten'" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Monday, December 26, 2011, 11:07 PM

Absolutely not!
He joined the NSDAP in 1932, when it was as yet not indispensable
for each diplomat to be a party member.
He also was briefly a member of the SS.
(of course this he did just because he liked to ride horses)
He was a trained physician, he did not have to work for a Nazi government
in a provincial small Romanian town.

There were German citizens who risked their well being and even their lives
in order to save Jews, but I have read nothing which convinces me
that Schellhorn was one of them.

And why if he had been the savior of 20000 Jews in 1941,
did he let about 4000 Jews be deported to Transnistria in 1942?

Mimi

On Dec 26, 2011, at 2:29 PM, cornel fleming wrote:

> Mimi...Schellhorn was in the German Diplomatic Service long before
> Hitler..but to stay in his job he had to join the NSDAP...which did not
> necessarily make him a Nazi!  Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-39065716-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-39065716-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam Taylor
> Sent: 26 December 2011 15:17
> To: HARDY BREIER
> Cc: Edgar Hauster; Berti Glaubach; Czernowitz Discussion Group; Jerome
> Schatten
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Rescue Operation of Czernowitz Jews - A Joint Venture
>
> Yevgenya Finkel may also have written that the moon is made out of
> blue cheese.
> This does not mean that she knows the facts or represents them
> correctly.
> I have previously read about some of the assertions of Yevgenia Finkel
> and have found them just as unfounded.
> "Nisht geshtoigen, nisht gefloygen, nor fom finger ausgesoygen"
>
> It is possible that some Popovici authorizations were sold by people
> who worked
> in Popovici's office. But I am absolutely sure that my parents did
> not buy the authorization
> I still have, nor did any of the friends of my parents buy their
> authorization.
> Would my father have bought an authorization for himself and not for
> his mother?
> Were all Czernowitzers who respected Popovici blind, stupid and
> mistaken?
>
> All the denials of Popovici's important and humanitarian role in
> saving many
> of the Jews of Czernowitz, is largely based on the Russian and German
> attitude
> towards Romania and Romanians. Read Shellhorn's own words and you
> will see.
>
> Schellhorn may have thought that the Jews were important to the
> economy of the city
> and he may have thought that it was better for the war effort to
> leave them be.
> Had he been such a great humanitarian, would he have joined the Nazi
> party?
>
> And why did he do nothing about the revocation of the Popovici permits?
> My family had a Popovici permit, but on June 7, 1942 when the
> deportations resumed,
> we had to hide in order NOT to be deported,
> the same in July of 1942. Where was Schellhorn then?
>
> Mimi
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